{"id":72595,"date":"2019-08-22T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/?p=72595"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:59:38","slug":"features-of-azure-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About Azure Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless you\u2019ve been offline for the last decade or so, you\u2019re unlikely to be familiar with Cloud Computing. Adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-cloud-computing-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloud services<\/a> is increasing regularly and despite how it may seem, AWS is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not the only cloud option<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure is an enterprise-grade cloud computing platform, offered by Microsoft, that focuses on hybrid cloud environments and is used by a wide variety of organizations, from Bank of America to Toyota. Azure can be used for a range of workloads, including DevOps, blockchain, internet of things, and big data analytics. It provides integration with Windows-based devices that the other providers have trouble matching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve already adopted Azure or are considering doing so, you probably want to make sure that all of the hard work that goes into migration and configuration is protected. Here, we\u2019ll look at how Azure handles one of the key aspects of this i.e. Azure Backup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/microsoft-azure-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latest Microsoft Azure Trends<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ea7e02;color:#ea7e02\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#5_Features_of_Azure_Backup_to_Know_About\" >5 Features of Azure Backup to Know About<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#1_Combination_of_Services\" >1. Combination of Services<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#2_Restoration_of_Individual_Files\" >2. Restoration of Individual Files<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#3_Multiple_Storage_Options\" >3. Multiple Storage Options<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#4_Built-in_Security\" >4. Built-in Security<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/features-of-azure-backup\/#5_Multiple_Ways_to_Backup\" >5. Multiple Ways to Backup<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Features_of_Azure_Backup_to_Know_About\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 Features of Azure Backup to Know About<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Backing up your data is vital in any environment but in the cloud, it is often handled a bit differently. Below are five aspects of Azure Backup that you should be aware of, in order to ensure that your data remains safe and available. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Combination_of_Services\"><\/span>1. Combination of Services<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure offers two services for backup that are intended to complement each other in your<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jacknight128\/a-complete-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-solution-8b3956e1f978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">business continuity and disaster recovery strategy<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2501 Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure Site Recovery is meant as a disaster recovery solution for on-premise machines and VMs and lets you replicate machines across multiple locations. If a disaster occurs, you can fail machines from the primary site to the secondary and back again when ready.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure Backup is meant for backing up data from on-premise machines and VMs and allows data recovery on a more granular level. If, for example, you do not need to recover an entire machine or simply want to create duplicate data for compliance or archiving, Azure Backup is what you would use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Restoration_of_Individual_Files\"><\/span>2. Restoration of Individual Files<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Backup, you can restore entire machines as well as individual files, depending on your needs. This is very<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.netapp.com\/blog\/azure-aws-snapshots-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">different from AWS snapshots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which require you to restore all or nothing. Being able to restore individual files makes data recovery faster as you don\u2019t have to wait for an entire machine to be restored. It prevents you from having to clean up associated backup data that you didn\u2019t need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To restore your files, you must connect the desired recovery point to your machine as a local drive, which can be done with a script that Azure provides. Once connected, you can search for the specific files you need, as you would do on traditional backup drives, and restore them. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Multiple_Storage_Options\"><\/span>3. Multiple Storage Options<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Backup offers two ways of storing your backup data, depending on your configuration and needs &#8211; Locally Redundant Storage and Geo-Redundant Storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) allows you to keep three data copies in a datacenter in the same region as your production data. It is available as a low-cost option for protecting your data from hardware failures.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) allows you to keep a copy of your data in a secondary region. It is the default and Azure recommended option as it can protect against natural disasters and regional outages. Note that, this option is more expensive than LRS. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Built-in_Security\"><\/span>4. Built-in Security<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure includes prevention, alerting, and recovery features in Backup to help you improve your security, as long as you are using the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/backup\/backup-azure-recovery-services-vault-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recovery Services Vault<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prevention features include an authentication layer for high-risk features like backup deletion or passphrase modification. This ensures that only users with valid credentials can change how your backups are managed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alerting features include email notifications for operations that impact backup availability, such as deletion of data. This ensures that you know when changes are made and you can verify that changes were not done without approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recovery features include the retention of deleted backup data for 14 days and a minimum number of stored recovery points. This ensures that accidental or malicious deletion of backup data can be recovered from and protects against data corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Multiple_Ways_to_Backup\"><\/span>5. Multiple Ways to Backup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three main ways to create and manage your backups on Azure to better allow you to fit Backup into your existing workflows. If you are skilled in these different ways, you can decide to validate your skills with one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/azure-certifications-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Azure certifications<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The primary way is through Azure Portal, a browser-based interface that offers centralized control of all of your Azure connected services. This has a simple user interface and allows you to access everything from support to reporting services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those with a bit more technical knowledge, Backup can also be directed through a shell, like Azure PowerShell AZ, Bash or Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based command-line interface. These options give you the freedom to use custom scripts and API calls and grant you greater control of Backup functions, such as scheduling and automation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also check our previous article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/aws-backup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Create a Backup Plan using AWS Backup Service<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making sure that your data is appropriately backed up and safely stored is vital to maintaining a highly available and secure system. Luckily, if you are using Azure cloud services, many of the features you need to accomplish this security and peace of mind are already available through Azure Backup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By using the features of Azure Backup covered here, and staying aware of new features as they\u2019re released, you can make sure that Backup is truly working for you and that you are getting the most out of your Azure cloud configuration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you\u2019ve been offline for the last decade or so, you\u2019re unlikely to be familiar with Cloud Computing. Adoption of cloud services is increasing regularly and despite how it may seem, AWS is not the only cloud option.\u00a0 Azure is an enterprise-grade cloud computing platform, offered by Microsoft, that focuses on hybrid cloud environments and is used by a wide variety of organizations, from Bank of America to Toyota. 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